[9.0b3] Font bug carried from 8.52- versions

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2016-06-22, 19:04 UTC

I guess this is a bug, which also exists in 8.52 and i believe is carried up until today from... who knows what version.

Configuration / Font. In this dialog, you can change TC fonts by pressing the respective "change font" button. When you select a font and press OK, this dialog offers a preview (a text/label with the alphabet). The font and size you have chosen is applied on the preview and you can see what you have selected. Everything is applied except the language / character set you have chosen.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-06-23, 09:57 UTC

This isn't a bug: The language/character set is irrelevant because TC uses the font with Unicode text functions.

It only matters in Lister and "Compare by content" when showing files in a non-Unicode encoding. Then TC uses the stored encoding.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2016-06-23, 10:57 UTC

Hmmm. I think i get it now. I wrongly assumed that the non-english chars that appear in the preview should change when the language was changed, in order for the user to see some chars of the alphabet in his own language. They are just some fixed characters from a certain language, right?

OK then, no bug here.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-06-27, 14:09 UTC

Which preview? Ctrl+Q? That uses the Lister font settings, where the encoding matters. File names are Unicode, so the chosen encoding doesn't matter because TC loads the Unicode font with ALL included encodings.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2016-06-27, 16:18 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:Which preview? Ctrl+Q? That uses the Lister font settings, where the encoding matters. File names are Unicode, so the chosen encoding doesn't matter because TC loads the Unicode font with ALL included encodings.

Nope. I mean the "preview" that appears in "Configuration / Font" dialog.

OK, i think now i can make this issue more clear because i just noticed something. In WinXP, the alphabet "preview" that appears in the "Configuration / Font" dialog displays the correct alphabet depending on the language you select. When you change the language, the "latin" part of the alphabet remains the same but the last part that depends on the selected language changes. In Win7 this does not happen. It seems like it always displays the Western alphabet as a preview, regardless of the language you have selected. It seems it depends on the font used for the Preview.

I'll try to sample some images and post them later.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2016-06-27, 16:30 UTC

wanderer wrote:I'll try to sample some images and post them later.

And here they are.

http://imgur.com/a/ssZjv

In XP, it appears that the fonts do change when you change the language and they display the correct characters. In Win7 this does not happen. Everything is displayed using the Western (probably) codepage.

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-06-28, 20:54 UTC

Ah, I see - this sample text is Unicode now too, so the encoding will not change anything.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2016-06-28, 21:01 UTC

OK, maybe then it would be better to show only English characters since the others will not be shown in the user's language.

Why this change? I just checked: in 32-bit version it appears normally, even under Windows 7. The 64-bit displays everything in unicode. Was it by accident or intentional and if so, could you share the reason?

Post by *ghisler(Author) » 2016-06-28, 21:11 UTC

X64 uses native Unicode controls out of the box because there are no ANSI x64 systems.

wanderer · Post by *wanderer » 2016-06-28, 21:17 UTC

ghisler(Author) wrote:X64 uses native Unicode controls out of the box because there are no ANSI x64 systems.

So this is probably something that is not change-able.

Ok then, thanks for the info.